Description

Using Cypriot themes in an intense, if oblique, sensual suggestiveness, Andriana Ierodiaconou has written incisive, radical poems that express a kind of post-colonial revolt… An atmosphere of despair and solitude runs through her poems much like the scorched earth of her native island suffering from the military invasion of 1974.

Andriana Ieorodiaconou’s poetry mixes the fold element with the implacable modern world. There is a constant reference… to her roots, to the simple picturesque but tortured world of her Cyprus. On the other hand, her subsequent experience of the modern world feeds her poetry with disillusionment and deception.